The Marxists-Leninist Economics of Putin's Russia - The Ghost of Lenin

"In attempting to go over straight to communism we, in the spring of 1921, sustained a more serious defeat on the economic front" - Lenin

It is important for us to understand the process of achieving total communism so that we have a clear understanding of the Putin era in Russia.

“It scarcely needs proof that there is not the slightest possibility of carrying out these tasks in a short period, of accomplishing all this in a few years. Therefore, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the transition from capitalism to communism, must not be regarded as a fleeting period of "super-revolutionary" acts and decrees, but as an entire historical era, replete with civil wars and external conflicts, with persistent organisational work and economic construction, with advances and retreats, victories and defeats. The historical era is needed not only to create the economic and cultural prerequisites for the complete victory of socialism, but also to enable the proletariat, firstly, to educate itself and become steeled as a force capable of governing the country, and, secondly, to re-educate and remould the petty-bourgeois strata along such lines as will assure the organisation of socialist production.” The Foundations of Leninism by Joseph Stalin

The post-Perestroika era has been a strategic retreat by international communism. During this process, the economy of Russia has embraced the benefits of partial capitalism to boost its planned economy while still maintaining a large amount of state-owned enterprise.

This policy of modern Russia is nearly identical to the one imposed by Lenin in 1922. The deceptive leader called his policy a “new flanking movement” that included “a free market and capitalism, both subject to state control”. Communists know that their systems do not produce growth and prosperity so they implement capitalism hoping to boost their economy with incentives and even foreign investment.

Some may excuse these policies of modern Russia as a mere coincidence as Russia decommunizes itself from the past while avoiding Western liberal decadence. I challenge them to ask themselves why does Putin’s Russia preserve the body of Lenin? The answer is clear, the Russian people have not escaped the horrors of Bolshevism.

My next article will be documenting Soviet defectors who believed in the fake collapse of the USSR